Blood Covenant
Devotion:
Our Bible is broken into two sections, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. (Many translations say Old Testament and New Testament but more accurately it is Covenant not Testament.) A covenant is a binding agreement which cannot be broken under the penalty of death sealed in blood. This means that the participants in the covenant are swearing to uphold the terms of the covenant even if it takes the last drop of their blood. There are many covenants in the Old Covenant but the one the total is specifically referring to is the covenant of law that God cut with the children of Israel under Moses. It is the covenant of law which Israel continuously broke, they could not keep the law. God's mercy was there for them until He had to finally put them away because of their turning away from Him to other gods. The second covenant is the one that Jesus came to cut with His Father on our behalf. Since the covenant is between the Father God and the Son it will never be broken. We are in this covenant because when we received that Jesus died for our sins we were born again into Him and He is in us. This is the covering fro our salvation. We are in covenant with the Father through our covenant representative, Jesus. In this covenant the Father has pledged all that is His for our help, if we need it. The blood of Jesus says a number of things, one that the price has been fully paid for all of our sins so that the enemy has no right to touch us. Also the blood says that we are in this permanent relationship with the Father where He has set us in a place of blessing, we are His favorite son because we are in the Favorite Son, Jesus.
When we take communion we are remembering the covenant of blood between the Father and the Son of which we are full recepients. The blood covenant between the Father and the Son our our behalf is the guarantee that every need has been abundantly provided for in Jesus.
“For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.”
Matthew 26:28 DARBY